As solar capacity grows, some of America's most productive farmland is at risk

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6. Growing corn under solar cells! Magic!!!! After all this cheering, on the planet as a whole, the magic solar...

...industry produced, in 2022, 7 Exajoules of energy on a planet consuming 632 Exajoules.

The numbers are here: 2023 World Energy Outlook published by the International Energy Agency (IEA), Table A.1a on Page 264.



I may be naive, but I always kind of thought that corn depends on photosynthesis, and photosynthesis requires light, but look, solar is magic and will solve all our problems with no impact on crop growth. Anyway who needs food when you can have the wonders of solar energy that's saving the world? The idea that we hit the highest concentrations of fossil fuel waste ever recorded yesterday, as measured at Mauna Loa, that ecosystems all over the world are collapsing under the weight of fires, extreme heat, extreme weather, acidification, and land industrialization should not deter us from our unshakable faith that the solar industry will grow by 9029% and provide all the energy, food, and playthings we need, including all the energy to manufacture and to drive all over the continent to replace all those solar cells every 20 years.

We're saved!!!!!!

How dare anyone criticize solar energy for land use issues? How dare they!!!!?!!!!!

Criticizing solar cells is even worse than criticizing the Bible, the Koran, and all of that other stuff that doesn't depend on reality.